An Office to send parcels, letters, buy stamps, go to your postal bank or even subscribe to assistance subscriptions. It’s a classic post office, except it’s in a truck. Five mobile offices have been deployed for a week in France in rural departments. An experiment that eight municipalities in the Jura will be able to benefit from.
Its inauguration attracted a crowd this Friday, April 26 in Mesnois. Parked in a square on the Grande Rue, the “Yellow Truck” is unmissable. This itinerant post office will pass through eight municipalities in the Jura from Tuesday to Saturday, classified in a “white zone”, that is to say, at least 5km or 20 minutes’ drive from a Post Office contact point. In total, almost 3,000 residents are affected.
Laurette Puaud
“We will have a stronger bond and more impact”
It’s a small revolution for Nicole and her husband Gilles. Residents of Mesnois for nearly 55 years, they regularly go to the Post Office by car. “We’re getting older, one day I won’t be able to drive anymore“, argues Nicole who congratulates this device.
For the three employees, the work remains the same, with a few nuances explains Baptiste, “we will have a stronger bond and more impact, because we come to meet people.” In addition to mail, parcels and the postal bank, the mobile office is also an “outpost” of France Services houses, to stay as close as possible to the population explains Philippe Dorge, Deputy General Manager of the La Poste group. “We adapt, we transform, with the aim of maintaining the network in the territory.”
Laurette Puaud
It is therefore also a way of fight against the desertification of rural areas greets the mayor of the town of Mesnois, Sandrine Gauthier-Pacoud. “More and more services are disappearing, but we need them, especially in rural areas where we always have to take the car.”
The truck will stop in eight towns in the Jura:
- Column: every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Place du Monument
- Château Chalon: every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Place de la Mairie
- L’Étoile: every Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 31 rue de Ruffey
- La Chailleuse: every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., 251 Grande Rue
- Frebuans: every Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 5 rue Prosper Sordet
- Etival: every Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., 455 rue Francis Picabia
- Mesnois: every Friday from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 2bis Grande Rue
- Cressia: every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., 12 rue Principale
